From our archives
June 15, 1983
Expanded cultural exchanges outlined
In the first five months of 1983, China sent abroad about 100 teams with more than 500 people and received about 120 foreign teams with more than 800 people on cultural exchange missions, Minister of Culture Zhu Muzhi said.
In the same period, China also signed four agreements on cultural exchange and nine cultural agreement implementation protocols.
Since 1979 China's cultural exchanges have been expanding. In 1982, the Culture Ministry sent 34 performing groups to more than 70 countries and regions.
Dazhai benefits from contract system
Dazhai Brigade in Shanxi province, once a banner in China's agriculture in the late 1960s and early 70s, has benefited tremendously from the job responsibility system in recent years.
Due to the system of determining remuneration for each household on the basis of production, the average per capita income in Dazhai Brigade hit an all-time high of 231 yuan in 1982, or 33 percent above 1978 when the system had not yet been introduced.
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Chinese and German children enjoy themselves at a party held at the Federal Republic of Germany's embassy in Beijing. |
Under the contracts signed by the households, each contractor should turn over to the brigade 3.75 tons of grain for use of each hectare of land while keeping the balance for themselves.
Study on minority literature stressed
A journal entitled China's Minority Ethnic Literature Study will be published soon.
The need for research, aimed at rescuing dying literature, was stressed at a recent conference of the Chinese Minority Ethnic Literature Society in Wuming county of Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.
The society was founded in 1979 and has published books in Zhuang, Tibetan, Mongolian, Kazak and other minority languages.
Shanghai starts 'soft science' research work
Twelve scientific research institutes for the study of "soft science" have been set up in Shanghai's universities.
"Soft science" involves such fields as management, policy-making science and forecasting.
The newly estalbished institutes will provide consulting service on the city's major social and economic problems.
(China Daily 06/18/2008 page9)
